A RARE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON BOAT' VASE

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON BOAT' VASE
DAOGUANG PERIOD, SHENDETANG IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK (1821-1850)

Well enamelled with a continuous watery landscape depicting dragon-boat racing, one boat with a dragon head and the other with a phoenix head, with spectators on the shores beside pavilions set among rocky mountains, all between ruyi borders, the yellow-ground waisted neck enamelled with lotus scrolls and applied with a pair of chilong handles, the interior and base with turquoise enamel
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 April 1992, lot 185, and at Sotheby's London, 8 December 1992, lot 296.

Compare with a few Shendetang-marked vases of similar shape and with closely related secondary decorative bands, illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pls. 188-190, and Daoguang-marked vases with similar characteristics, illustrated ibid., pls. 191, 193 and 194, the latter also painted with scenes of dragon-boat racing.

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